9 simple but important tips to leverage Pinterest for your business

Pinterest can be your business best-friend, and yet is still an under-discovered tool.

While many business owners use Pinterest to grow their business, blogs and generate traffic for their eCommerce, many even associate Pinterest with the sole purpose of creating vision boards and finding the next best cooking tips or the next best travel destination.

9 simple but important tips to leverage Pinterest for your business

Yes, Pinterest is an excellent tool for inspiration, so as a business let’s see how you can learn to use it to your advantage.

Think of “Facebook Pixel” with similar benefits. You’ll have better reporting inside Pinterest as well as the ability to create various audiences based on your website traffic.

Even if you don’t plan on running ads at this moment, this is an important step; your Pinterest Tag collects important data for you.

6. Ensure that your boards are as descriptive as possible.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make is using a generic Pinterest board description and/or simply adding your website to fill in the blanks.

Your Pinterest board description allows for up to 500 characters. Leverage this to ensure that your board tells users exactly what they will find in your board and fill it with as many keywords as possible.

5. Ensure that each pin is optimized with a title, description, and strong CTA

When you share a new pin, ensure that your pin title and description contain searchable terms (keywords) and that your Pinterest image also contains a great pin title with a CTA.

Vertical pins are your best friend, and with that being said don’t be afraid to repurpose other graphics you may have even if they are square.

I’ve had viral pins be a simple square image. If the message and the pin resonate with your audience, square pins can still be very effective. Remember, think of Pinterest as a search engine.

4. Consider using Tailwind for Pinterest

Tailwind is a marketing tool for Pinterest and Instagram.

It offers smart scheduling, the ability to join Pinterest Tribes (think of it as communities where you can share each other’s relevant pins and grow your traffic), it also provides analytics, insights, hashtag research and more.

Speaking of square images in our previous point, one of the things that I love about Tailwind is the ability to connect my Instagram profile and share my Instagram posts as pins allowing me to leverage Pinterest to grow my following on other platforms.

Both my clients and I have seen great results both on Pinterest and Instagram by leveraging this feature. I encourage you to explore Tailwind.

3. Leverage Pinterest to grow your email list

Take your best converting offer, whether that being a FREE video training, download, consultation or whatever it may be, and make sure that you’ve got a visually appealing landing page/funnel.

Head over to Canva or Photoshop and create about 10-15 different pin graphics (or more) for this offer.

Create an optimized title and description and share all of these images linking them bank to your offer. If you are using Tailwind Tribes, ensure that you share this across all of your tribes where allowed and relevant.

Repeat this process 1-2 per month for the same offer. Eventually, you’ll end up with a wide range of pins directing traffic to that same offer.

When you identify one of these pins that is doing very organically, put a few dollars behind promoting the pin to an actalike (a.k.a lookalike if we’re referring to Facebook) audience of your website traffic or email list.

2. Don’t forget to engage with your audience

Engage with both those in your niche, and your ideal audience. Like and comment on pins that you find useful and/or enjoyed reading.

Also, get into a habit of searching for whom has saved pins from your website by using the following formula:

You’ll see a list of everyone who has pinned content from your website to various boards. Follow them and engage with them on a regular basis. Why not nurture the relationship with Pinterest users that already love some of your content?

1. Don’t leave customer service on the back-burner

Pinterest can be a powerful customer service tool. In fact, most social media platforms can be leveraged for your customer service efforts when you get creative.

The idea for a service-based business and even for product sellers is to ensure that the answer to most of the questions a potential client would have, can be found on your social media.

You are helping clients in their buyer’s journey by being proactive and giving them the answers to the questions that they may have. Think of creating boards for frequently asked questions, testimonials, customer education, and more.

With these Pinterest tips, you should be equipped to start growing your traffic by first optimizing your Pinterest profile and setting yourself apart from the competition. When it comes to Pinterest, keep an open mind, be patient, be creative and always, always, always analyze your Pinterest data.

Social Media and Business Strategist. Inbound Certified. I have a passion for helping small businesses reach new heights with digital marketing. In my spare time you can find me running, or at the park with my dog.

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